April 9, 2013
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Ian Thompson reviews Mod: A Very British Style by Richard Weight for The Observer: Mod’s first choice of music was jazz, Richard Weight reminds us. Miles Davis in particular became a fashion icon for blue-eyed soul brothers everywhere in Britain. … Continue reading
March 20, 2013
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WHAAM! — Comics historian Paul Gravett on Roy Lichtenstein’s appropriation from comics: Lichtenstein’s… success, his getting away with turning supposedly anonymous ‘found’ comic art into high-priced paintings, continues to directly encourage others to do the same. But there is a … Continue reading
March 5, 2013
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‘The Art of Harvey Kurtzman’ curated by Monte Beauchamp and Denis Kitchen opens at the Museum of American Illustration in New York on March 6th. Boing Boing has more (via Drawger). On a related note: Steven Heller on Al Capp … Continue reading
February 22, 2013
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Decaying Rabelaisians – An interesting look at the current state of French literature by Florence Uniacke for The Spectator: Will Hobson, former contributing editor at Granta, says that fiction, philosophy, memoir and non-fiction (amongst other genres) are not clearly defined in France like … Continue reading
January 28, 2013
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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath was first published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. To mark the book’s 50th anniversary, Faber & Faber have posted a series of fascinating video interviews with Shirley Tucker, who designed the cover … Continue reading